I’m amazed how fast the perfect world of Adam and Eve collapsed. One minute they’re enjoying the finest, fantastical fruits ever tasted, the next bending under a curse while their children kill each other.

Super depressing, but so life goes. The way of the world ultimately leads down the path of a curse, a roadway laid at the dawn of humanity. Any reading of histories reveals the curse repeating, over and over and over.

But, oh so wonderfully, Jesus cut a new, upward path. A winding lane leading to a narrow gate, opening to the garden of gardens. Once we enter, the world of the curse fades to nothing. The path to choose in 2021.

Week One of Reading the Bible Cover to Cover